Political Science Now

AUGUST 23, 2024

The APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award, jointly supported by the Political Studies Association of the UK and APSA , honors political scientists engaged in collaborative and productive cross-national partnerships that make a significant contribution to the discipline in the areas of teaching, research, or civic engagement.

Political Science 52

Political Science Pedagogy Teaching Civic Engagement 52

Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. For example, in 2017 in Buenaventura, Colombia, activists and everyday residents held a three-week civic strike to call attention to and demand public investment in civilian lives.

Human Rights 59

Human Rights Anthropology Government Humanities 59

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

A grassroots coalition of business and civic leaders came together with a resolve to fix these problems by alternately helping and compelling educators to greatly improve their results. The economic development people had written the check. Mobile did more than just bemoan its grim statistics. Now we needed to cash it.”.

Education 79

Education K-12 High School Public School 79

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

He had stellar grades in high school and is civic- minded, taking after his mother, who works as a community organizer in Thibodaux. These numbers are striking in a state where, overall, 45 percent of public school students are white, 43 percent are black and 70 percent are economically disadvantaged.

K-12 75

K-12 High School Civics Government 75

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The effect is the same — forging partnerships with the city and local organizations to invest in the economic development of the community,” she said in a statement. Civic project’ or ‘land grab’? A lawsuit briefly halted the Bollinger plan because judges agreed it was not a “civic project.”

Civics 136

Civics Public School Economics Museum 136

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. In 2017, more than $20 million was allotted for pay raises to these schools.

Charter School 106

Charter School Economics Middle School Public School 106

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It not only scuttled our trip, but both the pandemic and the economic fallout hit our majority minority students hard. Last April, as the coronavirus swept through the city, our students and their relatives, many of whom work front-line jobs, were especially vulnerable to the health and economic devastation befalling New York.

Civic Engagement 145

Civic Engagement Social Justice Economics Civics 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2016

Without these students, the nation can’t meet its goal of increasing the proportion of the population with degrees , a measure by which several economic rivals now have an advantage. But such reforms are given long odds even by the people who support them. Help people with very little money make more of it?”.

Government 84

Government Civics Economics Advocacy 84

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

They’ve endured a number of Republican-led efforts to reduce arts funding since the 1990s, and in keeping with this tradition, President Trump’s budget blueprint, released in March 2017, proposes significant cuts to virtually every agency except Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

Oral History 65

Oral History Civics Economics Tradition 65

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. That money is not included in the Senate’s compromise infrastructure bill , now sitting before the House.

High School 116

High School Public School Government Elementary School 116

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017. Much like how town librarians stepped in to save the school libraries in 2017, they also provided crucial space, books, Wi-Fi, and activities to students during the pandemic.

Library 128

Library Geography High School Civics 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Students shivering in winter coats while trying to learn is horrific in itself, but the malfunctioning boilers are a metaphor for the wider problems with the criminal justice systems, schools, housing and economic development plans in the “Charm City.”. The 2017-18 fiscal budget is 1.31 She’s right. billion dollars.

Civic Engagement 87

Civic Engagement Charter School Economics Civics 87

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2017

Freedom, as celebrated by many school choice proponents and their neoclassical economic influencers, is mostly aligned with Friedrich Hayek’s definition in The Constitution of Liberty as freedom in a negative sense—the absence of coercion. Sign up for our weekly newsletter. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

Economics 76

Economics Civics Public School Private School 76